johnpmcloughlin.bsky.social
@johnpmcloughlin.bsky.social
London.Irish.Historian.Fun discovering #linguistics at QMUL.Interests too diverse: 17 cent.fundraising, hist/philanthropy, learning French, eccles. hist. In past: 12 century, amicitia, John of Salisbury.Career of major-gift fundraising, alumni relations.
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My phone, helpfully: on this day in 2018 you were in Australia visiting @superlinguo.bsky.social and enjoying jacaranda blossom season!
Me: ahhhhhhhh
Me: ahhhhhhhh
November 18, 2025 at 4:54 AM
My phone, helpfully: on this day in 2018 you were in Australia visiting @superlinguo.bsky.social and enjoying jacaranda blossom season!
Me: ahhhhhhhh
Me: ahhhhhhhh
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
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Grand first day digging the Dane’s Cast in Co Down! Iron Age or Medieval linear earthwork running along the Newry Valley. We’ll know soon enough. Some nice postholes, a palisade slot and two big ditches and banks
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Grand first day digging the Dane’s Cast in Co Down! Iron Age or Medieval linear earthwork running along the Newry Valley. We’ll know soon enough. Some nice postholes, a palisade slot and two big ditches and banks
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A 15th century church with a tower and pre-Reformation relics is our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek. Two restorations on Corstorphine Old Parish Church by William Burn and George Henderson, the latter redeeming the original Medieval layout, have taken place over the last 200 years.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
A 15th century church with a tower and pre-Reformation relics is our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek. Two restorations on Corstorphine Old Parish Church by William Burn and George Henderson, the latter redeeming the original Medieval layout, have taken place over the last 200 years.
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well good morning, new followers! get ready for occasional pictures of my cat, musings/RTs of ancient religion & history, a smattering of politics and pop culture
I had two books come out last year that you might like 1/2
Gospel Thrillers: scalar.usc.edu/works/gospel...
I had two books come out last year that you might like 1/2
Gospel Thrillers: scalar.usc.edu/works/gospel...
Gospel Thrillers: Get your copy of Gospel Thrillers
Gospel Thrillers: Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible is available in print and digital formats:Directly from the publisher, Cambridge University Press (digital and print)From an indepe...
scalar.usc.edu
September 20, 2024 at 1:22 PM
well good morning, new followers! get ready for occasional pictures of my cat, musings/RTs of ancient religion & history, a smattering of politics and pop culture
I had two books come out last year that you might like 1/2
Gospel Thrillers: scalar.usc.edu/works/gospel...
I had two books come out last year that you might like 1/2
Gospel Thrillers: scalar.usc.edu/works/gospel...
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fascinating attempt to square a circle of evidence on "when was sacrifice abolished?" in the late roman empire (open access!)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A Legal Exemption for the Temple Cults of Rome and Alexandria in the Fourth Century | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
A Legal Exemption for the Temple Cults of Rome and Alexandria in the Fourth Century
www.cambridge.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
fascinating attempt to square a circle of evidence on "when was sacrifice abolished?" in the late roman empire (open access!)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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On the new episode of "Historians & Their Histories," Thomas Lecaque tells us about his current book project on holy war rhetoric in colonial America. Listen on podcast streaming services or the MHS website: www.masshist.org/podcast/hath...
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
On the new episode of "Historians & Their Histories," Thomas Lecaque tells us about his current book project on holy war rhetoric in colonial America. Listen on podcast streaming services or the MHS website: www.masshist.org/podcast/hath...
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If transitory things, which soon decay,
Age must be loveliest at the latest day.
(Donne, ‘The Autumnal’)
Age must be loveliest at the latest day.
(Donne, ‘The Autumnal’)
November 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If transitory things, which soon decay,
Age must be loveliest at the latest day.
(Donne, ‘The Autumnal’)
Age must be loveliest at the latest day.
(Donne, ‘The Autumnal’)
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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If the model here is that you let a private company conquer a country, co-opt local elites to exploit it for profit and govern it by force, while providing no public services and never worrying about elections, then, yes - this is a really good analogy, Mr Kruger.
October 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
If the model here is that you let a private company conquer a country, co-opt local elites to exploit it for profit and govern it by force, while providing no public services and never worrying about elections, then, yes - this is a really good analogy, Mr Kruger.
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My Dad used to show me the constellations, but I don’t remember them, apart from the Plough and the North Star
Need something like this for next time I’m in Mayo
Need something like this for next time I’m in Mayo
October 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
My Dad used to show me the constellations, but I don’t remember them, apart from the Plough and the North Star
Need something like this for next time I’m in Mayo
Need something like this for next time I’m in Mayo
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📷 Traditional Architecture in #Jeddah, Arabia, c. 1910 #Architecture
October 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
📷 Traditional Architecture in #Jeddah, Arabia, c. 1910 #Architecture
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Took a while but nice to get my author’s copy!
October 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Took a while but nice to get my author’s copy!
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#earlymodern ads are never boring!
An ox on the way to slaughter ran into a house... created a mess! Good on you Mr Ox! 🐂 🩲👖👗🧦🪟
St James's evening Post, May 6, 1729.
An ox on the way to slaughter ran into a house... created a mess! Good on you Mr Ox! 🐂 🩲👖👗🧦🪟
St James's evening Post, May 6, 1729.
October 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
#earlymodern ads are never boring!
An ox on the way to slaughter ran into a house... created a mess! Good on you Mr Ox! 🐂 🩲👖👗🧦🪟
St James's evening Post, May 6, 1729.
An ox on the way to slaughter ran into a house... created a mess! Good on you Mr Ox! 🐂 🩲👖👗🧦🪟
St James's evening Post, May 6, 1729.
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Great new exbo at my place of work #LSBU on community activism in SE1 in 1970s @se1.news. Free to all so come along to Borough Road Gallery at 103 Borough Road, SE1 0EH 😊. #localhistory @chppc.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Great new exbo at my place of work #LSBU on community activism in SE1 in 1970s @se1.news. Free to all so come along to Borough Road Gallery at 103 Borough Road, SE1 0EH 😊. #localhistory @chppc.bsky.social
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We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org
October 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org
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I have discovered that women are more than capable of undertaking any task which requires physical strength or of learning any discipline which requires discernment and intelligence. Books which say otherwise were definitely not written by women.
- Christine de Pizan, b. 1365
- Christine de Pizan, b. 1365
October 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I have discovered that women are more than capable of undertaking any task which requires physical strength or of learning any discipline which requires discernment and intelligence. Books which say otherwise were definitely not written by women.
- Christine de Pizan, b. 1365
- Christine de Pizan, b. 1365
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The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.
October 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.
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About to teach the first class for our wonderful MSc in English Local History at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social - including a discussion of some of my favourite local history sources, like this 1586 map of the Isle of Purbeck.
October 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
About to teach the first class for our wonderful MSc in English Local History at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social - including a discussion of some of my favourite local history sources, like this 1586 map of the Isle of Purbeck.
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Wisdom, moral imagination, an enlarged sympathy for those who live or have lived differently from yourself. This is what you get from studying the Humanities. So quite important, actually.
October 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Wisdom, moral imagination, an enlarged sympathy for those who live or have lived differently from yourself. This is what you get from studying the Humanities. So quite important, actually.
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Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.
At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.
The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.
At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.
The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.
The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
October 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.
At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.
The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.
At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.
The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.
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I'm guessing Robert Jenrick might be hard-pressed to see a black face if he walked round his own constituency of Newark for 90 minutes, given the ethnic minority population of its main town looks to be smaller than the white population of Handsworth. (Source: citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastmi...)
October 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I'm guessing Robert Jenrick might be hard-pressed to see a black face if he walked round his own constituency of Newark for 90 minutes, given the ethnic minority population of its main town looks to be smaller than the white population of Handsworth. (Source: citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastmi...)
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it's ridiculous how some people seem to think the only possible reason to do a humanities phd is to become a tenured professor. i use the considerable fruits of my philological training all day every single day to overanalyse every word anyone says to or around me within an inch of its life
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
it's ridiculous how some people seem to think the only possible reason to do a humanities phd is to become a tenured professor. i use the considerable fruits of my philological training all day every single day to overanalyse every word anyone says to or around me within an inch of its life
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When I heard the news this morning I made virtually this same comment to my husband! If we women are good enough for the risen Christ himself…
So the church (C of E, anyway) has finally caught up with the very first moments of Christianity as a faith, in which women were the first witnesses and teachers.
October 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
When I heard the news this morning I made virtually this same comment to my husband! If we women are good enough for the risen Christ himself…